Several of the engineers I worked with all week are from this power plant. I drove by it on the highway every day going to and from the Training Center. I'm doing my part to make the nation's power grid more secure and reliable by teaching new skills to the engineers who keep it operational.

#CallMeIfYouNeedMe #FIFONetworks

#NetworkEngineering #cybersecurity

Ageism is real, don't get me wrong. I'm 69 years old, and I've experienced it personally. Nevertheless - we older white males are the most privileged group in America. Calling ageism the "most pervasive form of discrimination" - I mean, everybody gets old, so sure. But... there seems to be a lack of awareness here about what other forms of discrimination entail.

Heading to Atlanta from Seattle this morning. Then I'll drive a bit north and check in to my hotel. Sunday is R&R, then I'll spend all next week working for a public utility.
#cybersecurity #networkengineering

United States gender reveal tomorrow... I hope it's a girl.

People who use the laughing emoji for mockery reveal something dark and horrible about their personality.

Last summer I thought, "Wow, this stock is going up! I'll get in on the action!"

A national IQ test will be held on November 5th.

As I suspected. But it was worth a try.

I'm about to press Enter.

Yes, Facebook knows I'm in Boston this morning. This ad showed up in my Facebook feed. I want to emphasize that location-based advertising isn't inherently bad. This example is exactly how it's supposed to work.
Can location services be misused? Yes, of course. But for most people, this is all it is.

This is a new one for me - an FAA mandated flight delay! I'm traveling from Seattle to Boston, with a transfer here in Minneapolis-Saint Paul. I can't blame this on Delta. They told us the FAA is delaying flights into New England because the airspace is congested. Since I can't blame Delta, let's blame it on AI.

Warning: Do NOT turn on the UPS if the circuit breaker is in high spirits.

This guy sent me a connection request on LinkedIn, which I accepted. He sent me this DM, which starts with praise, but then went bizarre.
When "Don't let me down" is his first interaction with a complete stranger, he's trying to define the nature of the relationship.
If I ignored it, he'd assume I accepted his definition.
I didn't ignore it.

Here's the convo on Threads where I cross-posted this.

In our house we have good cellular Internet and if the phones lose Wi-Fi they automatically failover to cellular, so it wouldn't work here.

Even when our computers are off, we're being watched!
#caturday

This may be a “Mechanical Turk” situation. Theoretically, I’m using a WordPress AI instance to create a new website. It’s supposed to generate three options for me to evaluate. I gave it the description – it said, “the more detailed, the better” – and it’s been running for over 30 minutes now. You know what I think? I think there are three low-paid web developers somewhere in the world busy developing their ideas of what this website might look like. I can’t imagine an AI taking this long.

<rolls eyes>

Here at the Washington State IT Industry Forum & Modernization Summit. I'm looking forward to learning what the State of Washington is doing, and finding out how FIFO Networks can be involved.

#entrepreneurship

@th3j35t3r You might be interested in this. I was the Technology Director at a top-10 paging company, and designed and built two satellite controlled paging systems with nationwide coverage (continental 48 states), before cell phones made pagers a dead end. When I heard that the Hezbollah exploding pagers were Apollos, I went to download the manual.
“Bandwidth Exceeded.” Everybody and his brother is researching these now.